Log entire system activity

[Nitebirdz]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:19:23PM +0000, Sarangan Thuraisingham / துரைசிங்கம் சாரங்கன் wrote:
> Is there any way to log the activity that is taking place in the system 
> as a whole? I am talking about something other than kernel logs.
> 
> I guess I am a bit paranoid, but sometimes I want to know everything 
> that is happening in my system. For example, I want logs for ssh 
> activity, NFS or samba share activity, what process are using the 
> network, etc
> 
> Is there anything like that at all?
> 

Perhaps something like the "acct" package is what you have in mind?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/admin/acct
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/acct/
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/acct/html_chapter/accounting_1.html
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/acct/accounting_toc.html#SEC_Contents

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